Music Listening

5 Written Questions

1. tone combination that is stable and restful
2. The group of composers working at or near the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris from about 1160 to 1250, along with the music they produced, is referred to as the Notre Dame school, or the Notre Dame School of Polyphony.
3. simultaneous performance of the same basic by two or more voice or instrument
4. pace of the music
5. single melodic line without accompaniment

5 Matching Questions

1. sacred
2. troubadours/trouveres
3. intabulation
4. dissonance
5. Claudio Monteverdi

1. a It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France.
2. b an arrangement of a vocal or ensemble piece for keyboard, lute, or other plucked string instrument, written in tablature.
3. c pertaining to or connected with religion ( opposed to secular or profane): sacred music; sacred books.
4. d tone combination that is stable and tense
5. e an Italian composer, gambist, and singer

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a secular part song without instrumental accompaniment, usually for four to six voices, making abundant use of contrapuntal imitation, popular especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.
   1. mass
   2. aria
   3. sacred
   4. madrigal
2. a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
   1. voice parts; bass
   2. John Dowland
   3. Giovanni Palestrina
   4. Johann Sebastian Bach
3. a style of vocal music intermediate between speaking and singing.
   1. imitation
   2. recitative
   3. secular
   4. syncopation
4. an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.
   1. madrigal
   2. John Dowland
   3. Ars Nova
   4. consonance
5. a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.
   1. meter
   2. motet
   3. Orfeo
   4. lute

5 True/False Questions

1. Antonio Vivaldi → the style of composition characteristic of the 14th century in France and Italy.

   True        False

2. Orfeo → an early Baroque opera by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world.

   True        False

3. syncopation → presentation of a melodic idea by one voice or instrument

   True        False

4. meter → a vocal composition in polyphonic style, on a Biblical or similar prose text, intended for use in a church service.

   True        False

5. mass → a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.

   True        False